Artrepreneur from the Creative City Project

At some point, most creative people end up doing some client work. It can be a really wonderful process. In this episode we talk about a few things to be on the lookout for and some practical ways to make the client process amazing!

We’ve all been experiencing a lot. This week, we talk about how we embrace all those (sometimes conflicting) emotions and look forward. How de we get started again?

Being an artist is an emotional journey as much as it is a creative one. As we experience pain, that can be a powerful tool in creating meaningful work. But there’s another half to pain… healing. In this episode we talk about the wholeness that comes from learning how to heal.

Making things and releasing them takes courage. Attempting to bring your creative dreams to life puts you as some risk. When we’re prepared mentally and emotionally, it makes it more likely that we’ll take courage and press through. This week, we talk about how to develop that kind of creative courage.

The times will go up and down. How can you endure the down times as an artist? This week, we talk about some attributes that help us stay top of the list when someone is looking to hire or commission an artist.

This week, Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek made some comments that got a lot of artists fired up. In this week’s episode, we take a look at Ek’s assertion that musicians can’t get by on releasing music every 3 or 4 years. And we ask, “what does it mean to engage an audience?”

We all have creative dreams. But how do we make those creative dreams a reality? This week, we answer just that. By aligning our external reality with what we say we want, we get a ton of traction and things start to change.

Don’t get distracted. Once we focus in on the direction we want to go creatively, we can being cutting out the things that distract us. In this episode we talk about two important questions to ask. We also talk about practical ways to let go of something that isn’t serving us.

It’s easy to get caught up in all the inputs around us. But bringing your creative dreams to life is all about giving yourself space to dream. In this episode, we talk about 4 ways to create that space so you can thrive.

As artists, there are tons of people we can connect with to help bring our creative dreams to life. Sometimes that can feel like a black hole. But we believe you don’t have to fight so hard to build those relationships. In this interview with author, James Carbary, he give practical advice from his book, “Content-Based Networking.”